Title :
To drop or not to drop: On the impact of handovers on TCP performance
Author :
Cohen, Reuven ; Levin, Anna
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Technion, Haifa
Abstract :
This paper presents a comparison between two handover schemes: drop and forward. In the drop scheme, packets received by the base station after the host has disconnected are dropped, whereas in the forward scheme these packets are forwarded to the new base station. We analyze various TCP flavors and compare our findings to simulation results. Our results can be used to determine which handover scheme and which TCP flavor should be employed to minimize the negative effect of handovers on TCP performance.
Keywords :
cellular radio; transport protocols; TCP; base station; handover impact; negative effect; Bandwidth; Base stations; Computational modeling; Computer science; Delay effects; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Packet switching; Predictive models; Throughput; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM Workshops 2008, IEEE
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2219-7
DOI :
10.1109/INFOCOM.2008.4544656
